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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Economic growth in developed economies will accelerate next year and investors should buy U.S. stocks, partly on the likelihood that central banks' monetary policies will remain accommodative, Goldman Sachs strategists said on a webcast Monday. The gross domestic product (GDP) growth of the United States and the United Kingdom will exceed expectations, the strategists said, and U.S. stocks look attractive since the Federal Reserve will likely keep short-term interest rates low. A key trade in 2014 will be to invest in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index while betting against the Australian dollar, said Noah Weisberger, head of the macro equity team within Goldman Sachs' Global Markets Group.

--Clyde Russell is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.-- By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, Dec 9 (Reuters) - China's record imports of iron ore in November may be as good as they get for a while as a series of factors points to a moderation in the next few months. Imports surged 18.3 percent from a year earlier to reach 77.84 million tonnes in November, surpassing the prior record of 74.58 million tonnes in September. For the year to date, imports stand at 746.1 million tonnes, up 10.9 percent over the same period in 2012, making iron ore one of the most imported among China's purchases of major commodities.

By Manolo Serapio Jr and Silvia Antonioli SINGAPORE/LONDON, Nov xx (Reuters) - China is making its third attempt in two years to have a bigger say in pricing iron ore. This time it may have hit on the winning formula. Brisk trade in the first month on Dalian iron ore futures brings Beijing a big step closer to its goal of a China-based pricing benchmark for the world's second most traded commodity after oil, and the biggest earner for top miners Vale , Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton . China, the world's biggest buyer of a raft of raw materials from copper to coal, is pushing hard to establish pricing benchmarks for commodities.

--Clyde Russell is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.-- By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, Nov 14 (Reuters) - China's leadership plenum may have disappointed with sparse details about economic reforms, but there was enough to suggest the potential for major changes in way the country buys and trades commodities. The key elements from this week's meeting of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee were that markets would take a "decisive" role and that this would happen by 2020.

* Small West African miners out of favour with Western investors * Chinese mining companies moving away from full takeovers * Chinese infrastructure firms now main investors into region By Stephen Eisenhammer and Sonali Paul LONDON/MELBOURNE, Nov 12 (Reuters) - When a Chinese official said his country wanted half its iron ore imports to come from firms with Chinese involvement in five to 10 years, investors bet West Africa would benefit. Nearly three years on, many have been disappointed.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, reported higher profit than expected in the third quarter, boosted by increasing iron ore shipments and cost savings, and declared it was through the bottom of the cycle. The company, which makes some 6-7 percent of global steel and is double the size of its nearest rival, said core profit (EBITDA) in the normally weaker second half would be at least equal to that of the first. It said an improvement in underlying profitability this year was driven by a 1-2 percent increase in steel shipments, a 20 percent rise in iron ore shipments sold at market prices and gains from its variety of cost saving plans.